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Audience tix: Top Gear Australia

SBS is filming series 2 in April. Here's where to get your tiickets.

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tga-morrisonSBS is offering audience tickets for its second season of Top Gear Australia.

To film in April, the new series will feature a new line-up led by musician and car afficionado, James Morrison.

The top rating locally produced motoring entertainment program returns for its second series on SBS on 11 May.

“The studio audiences for Top Gear Australia are the privileged few who get to see the amazing cars close up, experience an exciting television series being filmed and there’s often an opportunity to chat with the show hosts at the end of the night,” said Denise Eriksen, Manager, Production and Development SBS TV and Online.

“The filming of Top Gear Australia series two will offer even more excitement with a new host in James Morrison who joins the ever popular Warren Brown and Steve Pizzati – and, at every show, the audience will see, first hand, a brand new segment which will involve a stunt in the studio. I can say no more!”

An application form for tickets is at www.sbs.com.au/topgearaustralia

Studio Audience Dates / Applications Close

Tuesday 7 April / Tuesday 10 March
Thursday 9 April / Tuesday 10 March
Tuesday 14 April / Tuesday 17 March
Thursday 16 April / Tuesday 17 March
Tuesday 12 May / Tuesday 14 April
Thursday 14 May / Tuesday 14 April
Tuesday 19 May / Tuesday 21 April
Thursday 21May / Tuesday 21 April

Top Gear Australia films in Sydney.

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  1. Man, all these people ragging on Top Gear Australia when they watched the first 20 minutes and complained that it wasn’t Clarkson, Hammond and May.

    I’m pretty sure now after they learned from most of their mistakes (The last 3 episodes were on par with the UK season), that the Second Season will be much better than the first.

    Hell, Top Gear UK’s season 1 was dreadful.

  4. I’m glad Charlie isn’t coming back as I like the two remaining presenters. Something about Charlie didn’t sit well with me last season. And he yelled a lot for no reason.

  5. Robert, note SBS’ word usage there, ‘top rating locally produced motoring entertainment program’ is just them saying it out rated Test Drive and The Car Show on Nine, which are the only other shows that even slightly fall in that category.

    That said, despite rating lower than the UK version, it was SBS’ top rating program every week of its 8 week 1st series.

    While obviously it isn’t as good as the UK version, it is still a whole lot better than the rest of the rubbish that is on in the same slot.

  6. I actually have some hope for this. Ok the show wasn’t great, the episodes didn’t keep up the entertainment long enough for the entire length of the episodes.

    The hosts were trying too hard to fill the roles of the UK hosts.

    Such a silly mistake to try and made a carbon copy, however, they should know this now? The hosts weren’t terrible, they just spent more time trying to say something witty and spontaneous that the british equivalent would, which tended to result in things, not spontaneous or witty.

    James Morrison, won’t be playing a role, so if he’s engaging, it really could lift the series.

    Another big problem is the budget, part of the UK top gear is the crazy stuff they do, the show wouldn’t be as good with out it, if it was just witty comments while driving cars. This is a big area the aussie show can’t compete with, so they really need to be creative, or the show will not succeed, no matter how the hosts are, if it’s mainly them just driving.

  8. We can’t stand it in the comfort of our own home. Standing around in some shed does not sound enticing. “the priviliged few who get to see the amazing cars close up”. That’s half the problem they don’t show any amazing cars. It’s just BMW and Mercedes. No variety. No interest. No watch.

  9. good news james morrison’s now replaced that twerp, but the production of this show is still less than medium so good hosts or not, it’s still rubbish and will remain rubbish. the uk version gets massive viewers, why bother with the spend SBS on this one, just keep up the repeats like the other commercial channels suceed with.

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